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The 32 Elements of
The Learning Code

Learning Code
Overview  Learning Code Overview

What is Learning?  Video: What is Learning?

What is Intelligence?  Video: What is Intelligence?

What is the Learning Code?

What is Species Learning?

The Drawbacks of Species Learning: Why Organisms Need Faster Ways to Learn

Reasons for Learning Failure in the 21st Century

Six and a Half Billion Intelligences  - Not One

The 11 Biological Intelligences

We Learn Through Selection Not Instruction

The Environment Is Everything to Increasing Your Adaptability / Intelligence Factor

Windows of Super Learning Opportunity

The Grave Risks of Too Much Information Too Soon

Danger! When the Media Becomes the Environment

Meaning - the Holy Grail of Learning

"No Meaning, No Learning": The Meaning Network

No Learning Without Emotion

No Learning Without Feedback From the Body

Working Memory - Where Emotionally and Somatically Tagged Information Gets Prioritized

Addicted to Meaning

The Motivational Problem

Breeding Out Personal Meaning by Extrinsic Motivation

Why There Is No Personal Meaning in Education

The Power of Concepts Over Details

Associative Learning - The Power of Simultaneous Neural Firing

Why Humans Are Such Copycats

Why Experience Beats Linguistic Learning Every Time

Memory Is Not an Event: The Four Stages of Learning

The Incubation Stage of Learning

Sleep - The Most Powerful Incubation Phase of Learning

The Grinches Who Stole Experience From Our Learning Institutions

Stress - the Death of Learning

The Cycle of Transformation

Resources

Autism Resources
 
Autism Info Website
http://www.autisminfo.com/ TONS of information!

Autism Society of America:
http://www.autism-society.org/site/PageServer

CDC (Centers for Disease Control)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/index.htm

Cure Autism Now (CAN) Foundation
http://www.cureautismnow.org/

Kennedy Krieger Institute
http://www.kennedykrieger.org/
Includes autism, behavior and learning disorders too
http://www.kennedykrieger.org/kki_diag.jsp?pid=1091
 
Organizations Specifically for Autism
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/autism/autism.htm#Organizations

Thompson Center - University of Missouri-Columbia (for autism and neurodevelopmental disorders)
http://thompsoncenter.missouri.edu/
They are also creating a National Registry for patients to network.
 


Dyslexia Resources

Davis Dyslexia Association International
http://www.dyslexia.com/
Lists information, correction providers, forums and articles and reports

National Institute of Neurological Disorders
http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dyslexia/dyslexia.htm
General information and organizations

The International Dyslexia Association
http://www.interdys.org/


Learning Disability Resources

DANA Organization - Latest Research on the Brain
Learning Disabilities:
http://www.dana.org/brainweb/brainweb.cfm?CategoryID=14

Learning Disabilities Association of America
http://www.ldanatl.org/

National Center for Learning Disabilities
http://www.ncld.org/
Great site - has specific sections for parents, advocates, preschoolers, grades k-8 and high school and adulthood


ADHD/ADD Resources

Attention Deficit Disorder Association
http://www.add.org/
Adult ADD resources, help, information and support

CDC website on ADHD and ADD
http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/

CHADD
http://www.chadd.org//AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home
A great site for children and adults with ADD and ADHD (an incredible amount of information).

DrugWatch.com
http://www.drugwatch.com/
Drug Information, Side Effects & Interactions of pharmaceuticals including those for ADHD.

Mayo Clinic web page on ADHD
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/adhd/DS00275

MedlinePlus
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
Another great resource

National Alliance on Mental Illness
http://www.nami.org/

National Institute of Mental Health
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/healthinformation/adhdmenu.cfm and
http://www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/adhd.cfm

National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/adhd/adhd.htm

Nemours Foundation
http://kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/learning/adhd.html
Aimed at teens with ADHD

National Resource Center on AD/HD (a program of CHADD)
http://www.help4adhd.org/en/about

U.S. Surgeon General on Mental Health and AD/ADHD http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/mentalhealth/chapter3/sec4.html

Cracking the Learning Code Book

The Code

For Parents  Video: For Parents
It's not your child that is failing - it's the school system that is failing your child. Learn why and what to do about it.
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For Adult Learners  Video: For Adult Learners
You can dramatically accelerate your speed of learning when you understand the true science of learning.
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For Corporate/Government Organizations  Video: For Corporate / Government Organizations
Conventional training methods waste money and inhibit growth. Now there is a science-based solution.
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For Social/Political Organizations  Video: For Social / Political Organizations
To create change in the community, you must first create change in the brain. Discover the science of transformation.
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About the Author
About JW Wilson, executive director of The Advanced Learning Institute and author of Cracking the Learning Code.


Support for Trainers
Code 24 Audit

The Neurogenetics of Marketing


Bonus Articles
A Brief and Ugly History of Intelligence Testing

Were You Born With a Fixed Intelligence?

The Problem With Academic Performance

False IQ Scores and Chronological Age

Working Memory Fools Education System

Tests Collapse the Field of All Possibilities

Why We Need to Learn a Foreign Language Young!

What to Do About Your Child's Media Usage


Resources

ADHD/ADD

Dyslexia

Learning Disabilities

Autism

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